Sensory Play: I Hear Thunder

Here’s a song to help us think about our senses 👀 You can use this tune and change the words to be about whatever you can hear and see around YOU!

Sensory Play: Lights and Shadows

This is kind of incredible… you can make an amazing light show in your own home using nothing but a torch and a colander! Or if you want to get FANCY, you can add colour by shining the torch through a cardboard tube covered in coloured paper.

Sensory Play

Mark Making: Frozen Chalk Paint

Having so much fun with colourful cornflour paint here! Cornflour paint is just a mixture of cornflour, water and food colouring, and is great because it dries to chalk… then can just be brushed or washed away!

Mark Making: Drawing in Loose Materials

No felt tip pens or crayons at home? No need! You can practice mark-making in all kinds of ways, from using a stick or draw in dirt, to making patterns in a tray of dried lentils. Your little one will still get the benefit of exercising their fine motor skills and seeing how their movements […]

Mark Making with Herbal Teabags

Have you tired mark-making with tea bags? Herbal tea bags smell amazing and make some lovely colours!

Cardboard Tubes: Rolly Polly Baby Toy

If your little bean is enjoying tummy time, why not craft this a little “shaker”, by adding some old lentils and pasta in a toilet toll and securing it with cellotape? It makes noise, it’s colourful and it rolls, which makes it very attractive!